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Yesterday, Kotaku published a piece by Rachel Edidin that went by the title "She Was Harassed By A Games Reporter. Now She's Speaking Out." While it was structured around telling the story of Alice Mercier (not her real name) a female member of the v...

Forget the Iron Throne, Danaerys Targaryen, this is what your destiny has been leading you toward. Tritonia khaleesi is a new species of sea slug recently discovered off the coast of northeast Brazil by scientists from the Federal University of Ceará...

At its launch, Pinterest was immediately labeled as an inherently feminine social-media site in its method, largely, it seems, because its early user base -- unlike a lot of other social media communities -- was predominantly female. In fact, that’s ...

You remember the fun San Francisco (and everyone else) had with Batkid, right? Well, the Bay area town of Vallejo recently celebrated another young individual by turning them into a superhero for a day. Everyone, say hello to Monika Romo, a.k.a. Wond...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt announced Monday night that he will be working with Warner Bros., David Goyer and Neil Gaiman to bring The Sandman to life as film. One of the first indications of this project’s existence we may have had was from Diane Nelson he...

Writers from Thor and X-Men: First Class are working on a script for a new Terminator television series that will tie-in to the upcoming reboot trilogy. According to reports on the Terminator film, the short-list of actresses up for the role of Sarah...

You'll soon be able to stream all 24 seasons of The Simpsons, thanks to a new syndication deal. This is the first time the Fox series will be in syndication on anywhere but network televisions. According to the news release: After a vigorous bidding ...

Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games, revealed in a conference call Friday that it has been approached to create theme parks after the popular franchise and is considering the possibility. There isn’t a lot of information yet, but the phone ...

Marvel Comics will release a new comic book series, called Ms. Marvel, featuring a Muslim heroine. The series, which will debut in February, will star Kamala Khan, a teenage girl who discovers she has shape-shifting powers. “Captain Marvel represents...

NBC has agreed to a put pilot commitment on a reboot of Angela Lansbury‘s hugely popular and long-running mystery series Murder, She Wrote. That means that we’re definitely seeing Octavia Spencer in the lead role some time soon. There’s usually no gu...

A group of Doctor Who fans have uncovered a cache of 106 long-lost Doctor Who episodes in Ethiopia, according to recent reports. But what do we know for sure, and what’s just hearsay? The Mirror‘s Sunday People reports that Whovians tracked down a ca...

You had better enjoy anime legend Hayao Miyazaki's next film, The Wind Rises, because it'll be his last. The news comes courtesy of Koji Hoshino, one of the heads of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli; this is what he said at the Venice Film Festival, where Mi...

Great TV is often made great by its characters -- and the outstanding actors who play them. The animation above casts Zooey Deschanel as Daenerys, Aubrey Plaza as Ygritte and Michael Cera as -- wait for it -- Joffrey. As you'll see, cutesy, jaded and...

The Seattle Public Library broke the world record for the longest domino book chain, lining up 2,131 made-to-collapse hardcovers. In an effort to promote the library's Summer Reading Program, staff and volunteers collaborated with concept designers L...

When last we posted about cosplay piano, it was Catwoman tickling the ivories. This time, Sonya Belousova dons more than one costume for a Game of Thrones extravaganza. I think they've outdone themselves -- there's dragons. Image courtesy YouTube, Wo...

Jaime Moore wanted to do something special for her daughter’s fifth birthday photo, but when she looked online, all she could find were princess tutorials. “Now don’t get me wrong,” she says on her site, “I LOVE Disney Princesses … But it got me thin...

Well, this sure makes me want to do some science this weekend. Seventh graders at Cornerstone Christian School performed this experiment on "the effects of altitude on air pressure and temperature." And presumably also on a Hello Kitty doll inside a ...

More and more lately, we're witnessing technologies from our favorite sci-fi films and television shows getting closer to reality. The latest is like something from Minority Report -- it's a new kind of software meant to predict the actions of crimin...

Science in sci-fi movies is rarely all that accurate. We get that. It's OK. Space battles wouldn't be nearly as cool on screen if there weren't any impossible explosions taking place in a vacuum. But some movies take their disregard for the basic pri...

Get More: MTV Shows MTV Geek has put together this video tribute to Amazing Spider-Man #700, featuring several people involved in the comic (including writer Dan Slott), Stan Lee (of course), Norman Reedus and several of the cast members of Jersey Sh...

An online service called iPet Companion allows you to remotely control kitty toys so you can keep otherwise bored cats entertained. “A signal is relayed from the servers at iPet Companion to the control boxes situated within the home (located anywher...

David Tennant will join the Star Wars universe. Although several other actors from sci-fi stardom have been on the show, the Doctor Who actor is the first Doctor to appear on Clone Wars, according to IGN. The episode will air this Saturday on Cartoon...

It turns out that watching horror movies helps you burns calories. But it's not enough calories to offset a giant bowl of butter-drenched popcorn, so this news isn’t nearly as good as it seems on the surface. A study conducted by researchers at the U...

If you're a book lover, getting an e-reader is both exciting and vexing. True, you can have hundreds of books ready to read at a whim. But the downside is that no one else knows what you're reading (but then again, maybe that's a good thing). Etsy us...

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